Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wants her. Because the girls at the bakery dared her to, she took Jencic's hand one day and told him she liked him. When he humbly tries to follow this up, she turns on him angrily with: "I'm not so hard up I got to walk with scarecrows like, you!" She certainly is not "hard up." The toss of her head, the swing of her hips as she walked away from Jencic, bespeak an alley queen who can pick and change her lovers as she chooses...
...night club, Atlantic City, N. J. Credit for the Tinney progress is due to Eddie Cassaday, oldtime minstrel and Tinney crony, and Professor Edwin Burket Twitmyer, head of the psychology department of the University of Pennsylvania. Said Dr. Twitmyer: "When he first came to me Tinney couldn't walk on a wide board. A ladder was impossible. I taught him to walk, stepping between the rungs. Now he can climb a ladder." Said Comedian Tinney: "Sure...
Tall, gaunt William Tatem Tilden II once hurt his finger on his right hand while he was at the height of his career. It was characteristic of him to walk down a Philadelphia theatre aisle holding the injured member aloft so that all might see. Miss Wills, ace of women players, from the opposite edge of the U. S., is just the opposite sort of person...
...vivandiere "was born to the sound of a salvo of guns. She was weaned at three weeks and put on the bottle. Only it wasn't milk in the bottle, it was brandy! . . . The only powder she's ever had on her hair is gunpowder. She could walk at nine months, talk at a year, and had a remarkable vocabulary of bad language before she was three. . . . The only doll she had was a cannon-sponge on a used fuse-stick, dressed in a soldier's waistcoat." When she grew up she was popular for more reasons...
After being held scoreless for five innings by Hurwitz, left-handed Rhode Island State twirler, the Harvard baseball forces came to life in the sixth inning of yesterday's game and pounded out eight runs in three frames to walk off with the ball game...